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“It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man.”
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- Source:
- Of Seeming Wise.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1ff8d28b03a95652871c67804a23d1aa9a82064874ab5ecfd475303e731a07c1
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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